The Most Expensive Word in Your Product Is Now “Yes”

A frontier lab shipped the confirmation dialog into the model. The same week, the research asked whether anyone is still qualified to press it. Part…

Oct 2 • Germán León

September 2026

The Second User Showed Up Uninvited

Isolated agents with no way to talk to each other built a message board out of a directory listing. Every affordance you have ever designed is now an…

Sep 25 • Germán León

The Org Chart Is the Last Legacy Interface

The design profession finally got measured this year. The individuals passed. The companies around them did not. Part two of four on the judgment gap.

Sep 17 • Germán León

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The $46 Million Contradiction

A CEO gave up $46 million to apologise for a share price, one day after the best numbers of his company’s life. Part one of four on the judgment gap.

Sep 9 • Germán León

August 2026

The Ledger and the Canvas

Issue drafted August 6, 2026. AI was cited in a record 101,000 US job cuts this year. The same week, the platform where design happens posted its…

Aug 10 • Germán León

July 2026

The Week Your Design System Became an API

Issue drafted July 20, 2026. Generative UI grew up by submitting to design systems, the layoff wave found its real shape, and the one-person team…

Jul 30 • Germán León

Episode 009

New episode of In Love with AI is out.

Jul 24 • Germán León

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Episode 008

What happens when intelligence becomes cheap? Value moves back to the real world.

Jul 17 • Germán León

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The Interface Bottleneck

In love with AI, issue for the week of July 13, 2026 OpenAI shipped its smartest model ever, and lost the week to a sidebar.

Jul 16 • Germán León

The Interface Was the Moat. Now What?

Two of the sharpest readers of this moment, a finance writer and an AI researcher, are describing the same unbundling from opposite ends. For anyone who…

Jul 10 • Germán León

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The Canvas Fights Back

When design tools learn to code, and coding tools learn to design, the question is not which one wins. It is which surface survives.

Jul 9 • Germán León

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The Gap Closed. Now What?

AI agents finally bridged the distance between imagining a thing and building it. For design engineers, that is the dream we asked for, and also the…

Jul 7 • Germán León